Gabriel Esperanssa

Gabriel Esperanssa, also spelled Esperanza or Esperança was a 17th-century rabbi at Safed. He was originally from Salonika, where he was a disciple of Daniel Estrumsa. He apparently assumed the name of a woman called Esperanssa (Spanish for "hope"), who adopted and educated him as an orphan.

He was an exceptional Talmudic scholar and had studied together with David Conforte in Salonica. He served on the Safed rabbinate in 1677 and may have officiated as the chief rabbi of Safed at the time. He was one of the four people chosen by the Constantinople rabbinate to investigate the prophetic claims of Nathan of Gaza.

He left several works, but only the collectanea to the Pentateuch have been published. A few of his responsa have survived in citations.